Joshua Hill

Joshua Hill (10 January 1812-6 March 1891) was a Senator from Georgia from 1 February 1871 to 3 March 1873, succeeding Alfred Iverson, Sr. and preceding John Brown Gordon.

Biography
Joshua Hill was born in Abbeville, South Carolina on 10 January 1812, but he moved to Georgia to practice law. In 1857, he joined the Know Nothings, a nativist political party that opposed immigration to the United States. In 1857, he was elected to the US House of Representatives from Georgia's 7th district, remaining in that post until Georgia's secession in 1861 at the start of the American Civil War. After the end of the war, he joined the US Republican Party and was elected to the Senate. He did not run for reelection in 1873, and he returned to practicing law. Hill died in Madison, Georgia in 1891.